An attempt is made to share the truth regarding issues concerning Israel and her right to exist as a Jewish nation. This blog has expanded to present information about radical Islam and its potential impact upon Israel and the West. Yes, I do mix in a bit of opinion from time to time.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Israel and the Terrorist Rug Merchant

Sultan Knish
Few figures in American political life have been as consistently wrong
as often as John Kerry. The former Senator bet on every Communist leader
and Middle Eastern tyrant he could find only to watch the wheels of
history roll over his mistakes. And now as Secretary of State, Kerry is
at it again.

In
between peddling a Syrian peace process that no one but him believes
in, he took a break to peddle the even more discredited peace process
between Israel and the terrorists.

In a speech to the American
Jewish Committee, Kerry invoked the litany of failures, "Madrid to Oslo
to Wye River and Camp David and Annapolis", but urged his audience not
to pay attention to history and “give in to cynicism”.

"Cynicism
has never solved anything," he said. But then again neither has the
Peace Process. And while cynicism isn't likely to usher in an era of
peace or grow money on trees, it offers you the power to extract
yourself from bad situations instead of taking refuge in more of the
same wishful thinking that got you into them.

If you find
yourself mailing your tenth check to that Nigerian prince, cynicism
won't get you a 200 percent return, but it will keep you from losing
more money.

"Why should any Israeli start giving in to that
cynicism now?" Kerry asked. Perhaps because it's been twenty years. Or
because thousands of Israelis have been killed and wounded. Or because
there isn't a single piece of supporting evidence to show that the other
side is interested in any kind of final peace agreement.

The
only sure things that have come out of the Peace Process in two decades
are terrorist attacks and increased demands by the terrorists. There has
been no final status agreement for the simple reason that the
terrorists can only get the best possible deal by never coming to an
agreement. The longer they hold out, the better the offers that the
likes of John Forbes Kerry extract from Israel are. And the offers keep
getting better so there is never any reason to actually make a deal.

Picture
a desperate rug merchant dickering with a customer. The rug merchant
always lowers his prices. The customer always lowers his bids. The deal
can never happen until the price of the rug reaches zero or until the
rug merchant decides that the price isn't worth selling at. And that is
the thing that men like Kerry will never allow Israel to do. Israel can
never stop bargaining and the Palestinian Authority never has to stop
bargaining until the entire rug, all of Israel, is on the table.

Since
Israel can never make that offer and since its enemies will never
accept less than the whole rug, the negotiations are doomed to a
descending spiral in which the Jewish State's negotiators offer more and
more in the hopes of settling the negotiations faster to avoid the even
higher demands that they know they will face down the road, while the
exact same calculation removes any incentive from the other side to
settle because they know that the deals will be better down the road.

The
only way out of the spiral is for Israel to walk away from the
negotiations for good, accepting that the penalty for permanently
abrogating the peace process will be less than the eventual penalty for
perpetuating the peace process. And that is what Obama and Kerry hedge
against by talking up the benefits of peace.

"The great enemy of
the truth is very often not the lie; deliberate, contrived and
dishonest, but the myth; persistent, persuasive and unrealistic," John
F. Kennedy said. The mythology of the peace process is the enemy of the
truth. Its "reassuring repetition of stale phrases" prevents what
Kennedy called, "the difficult, but essential confrontation with
reality."

Kerry repeatedly calls for hope against cynicism, using
stale phrases to perpetuate a mythology of peace with no basis in
reality. Out of his mouth fall all the stale promises and threats that
have been moldering for decades."We can’t let the disappointments of the
past hold the future prisoner," he says and you can hear the faint
echoes of a thousand old speeches and smell the musty air of old banquet
halls.

All these are the enemies of the truth. And the truth is a simple thing.

Kerry keeps speaking of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. But which Palestinians would those be?

Nearly
half of the population of the Palestinian Authority lives under Hamas
rule. Hamas is arguably the legal government of the entire Palestinian
Authority having actually won elections.

Meanwhile President
Abbas, the man whom Kerry would like Israel to reach a final status
agreement with, was last elected in 2005. He is approaching the eighth
year of his four year term.

During his heavily hyped visit to
Israel, Obama gave a speech in which he said, "The days when Israel
could seek peace simply with a handful of autocratic leaders, those days
are over. Peace will have to be made among peoples, not just
governments."

But that's exactly what Kerry is peddling. A worthless deal with a bunch of autocrats.

If
Obama really meant what he said, then he would have insisted that Abbas
win a current election to show that he actually speaks for the
residents of the West Bank and Gaza. It would also be a matter of basic
practice for the entire question of Hamas and Gaza to be settled so that
there is one unified Palestinian Authority to negotiate with, rather
than two Palestinian states.

And yet that's not on the table
here. Anyone who proposes that a man who claims to speak for the
Palestinian people should have been elected by them to higher office in
this decade would be accused of cynicism and lacking in hope and faith
in the mythology of peace.

Obama’s failure to insist on that means that he knows the negotiations are worthless.

The
bigger Arab League peace plan that Kerry is proposing is equally
worthless. Not only is it worthless in detail, but it's worthless
because, as Obama said in his speech, it represents a handful of
autocratic leaders.

The proposal came from the Saudi King who has
never run for anything, except perhaps a dessert tray. The Arab League
consists of monarchies, tyrannies and a few elected governments that
took a severe beating during the Arab Spring and remain unstable even
after elections. Aside from the absolutely terrible terms of the
agreement, there is absolutely nothing to show that the offer represents
any popular will or mandate in the Arab World.

In 2010, John
Kerry met with the Emir of Qatar who told him that the best way to
resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be for Israel to give up
the Golan Heights to Syria because then Assad could convince Hamas,
Hezbollah and Iran to come to the negotiating table.

The full
phrasing of the Wikileaks cable is worth quoting here if only because it
should serve to disqualify John Kerry from ever being allowed to
negotiate anything, including his next yacht buy.

"Senator Kerry
told the Amir he knew Qatar could help the U.S. but asked how we deal
with those who advocate violence. The Amir said the short answer is to
work the Syrian track, which means pushing for Israel's return of the
Golan Heights to Syria. The Amir said return of the Golan is important
not just to Syria but also to Hizballah and Iran."

The last time an American leader performed this well, he was sitting across the table from Stalin at Yalta.

Kerry
said that he had "great discussions" with Assad. The Emir told Kerry
that Assad was committed to "big change". Kerry agreed that Assad wants
change and peace with Israel. The Emir told Kerry that it's important
that the United States pressure Israel into turning over the Golan
Heights.

A year later, the Emir of Qatar was financing a Sunni
war to overthrow Assad. Everything that he had told Kerry proved to be
utterly worthless. There was no peace on the horizon. The Emir had only
been using Kerry and Assad to weaken Israel, before using Hillary
Clinton to weaken Assad. There was no peace here. Just the puppetry of
diplomatic war.

Kerry learned no lessons from this. If there is
anything that Kerry has learned a lesson from in all his years of being
played by everyone from the Viet Cong to the Sandinistas to Assad, it's
impossible to tell.

At the AJC, Kerry talked up the "moderate"
leadership of Abbas, who had declared that he was no different than
Hamas. And he doubled up on the mythology of hope. "People have spent so
much time lamenting what hasn’t worked in the past that I believe we’ve
actually forgotten to focus on what the future could look like if we do
keep faith," he said.

But it's actually the other way around.
The creaky process has only dragged on this long because of all the
people who insist on taking hope on faith, instead of basing their
decisions on the solid ground of history.Who trade Patrick Henry's lamp
of experience for rose-colored glasses.

"Mythology distracts us
everywhere," John F. Kennedy said. "In government as in business, in
politics as in economics, in foreign affairs as in domestic affairs."

The
mythology of the peace process is a giant distraction. It allows for
the same worthless commodity to be sold and resold, again and again. And
that commodity is hope. The Israelis have been compelled to trade
territory and lives for hope. Now the trade is beginning all over again,
this time with a peace plan put forward by a country that is behind
much of the terrorism around the world.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar
insist that they are American allies even while they fund terrorists who
carry out attacks against America. In 2010, they were insisting that
Syria could also be America and Israel's best friend if only it had the
strategic high ground of the Golan Heights. And that once it had the
Heights, then it could bring Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran to join the
party. Now they're insisting that America has to destroy Assad and
pressure Israel to give up half of Jerusalem to a terrorist organization
and then there will be peace.

The substance of John Kerry's
speech was that he had learned absolutely nothing from the past and that
everyone else should join him in not learning anything from the past.
That optimistic ignorance is not a luxury that either America or Israel
can afford.

At the conclusion of his address, Kerry invoked the
oath of Israeli soldiers at Masada. But the very point of the oath is
the responsibility of the Israeli soldier not to allow his country to be
put into a position where it is so besieged that its only choice is
between the depredations of the enemy and an honorable suicide. And
Masada, the final last stand in a desert fortress, is exactly where
Kerry and the Qatari and Saudi devils whispering in his ear are driving
the Jewish State.

Daniel Greenfield
is a New York City based writer and blogger and a Shillman Journalism
Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

We are hypocrites and cowards - we take freedom for granted as it is eroding underneath our feet‏

Message to offended Muslims

A GOOD, TRUE STORY NOT KNOWN BY MANY.....Air Force.

The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

What happened?

Mark Hasten Tribute Video Touro College

Housing Quiz

The Record-so far...!

CBS special on Bengazi

Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare

Sally Nelson

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

Islamization on the move

"What we are dealing with is Islamization. Islamization is the imposition of ideological norms in increasing severity. Like Nazification, it transforms a society by remaking it in its own image from the largest to the smallest of details."Daniel Greenfield

Toronto rejects Anti-Israel Ads...

Shrinking Lands

Why Israel opposes international forces in the jordan valley/

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Islam is Islam, And That’s It

Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading and annotating this video: View video at http://gatesofvienna.net/

There's no racist like a liberal racist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vz4PjxSmtoI

Ex-Navy SEAL Drops Bombshell On FOX: Says Government is Creating Conditions to Impose Martial Law R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDuds14OBiE#t=156

American surprise

The Nairobi Mall Massacre

Ninh Chu Ninh Chu

Islam Untied

Platitudes about Islam being a faith of peace are not credible anymore. Islam is only as good as the way its followers practice it; and if they have created killing fields in the name of Islam, then Islam will be recognized by the silence of those who did not speak out when their faith was being massacred to massacre humanity.

AFTERBURNER w/ BILL WHITTLE: The Lynching

What-are you against peace?

Sydney Wake Up The Horrific Muslim Infiltration Of Britain - Luton

Kerry: 'Core Issue of Instability ... Is the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict'‏

Kerry is no friend. By endorsing the "Arab peace initiative" he shows his true intentions and beliefs . And by endorsing linkage he shows that he is either a liar or a fool.Syria is on fire, Egypt is at best incredibly unstable and this is due to Israel? It is out in the open!

A word to left-wing students

In their own words-ru listening?

"The lesson these Islamist groups appear to be drawing from events in Egypt is that democratic engagement with opponents is pointless. And that doesn't bode well for countries with strong Islamist movements..."

Flashback: Obama Admits He Cut Medicare

Another Democratic slogan blown to h....

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

When nations and cultures ignore the early warning signs of the infiltration of radical Islam

The UK has 85 sharia courts. France has over 750 “no go zones,” Muslim enclaves where even French police don’t enter.

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKk15KcqNk&feature=email

No such thing as "Islamophobia"

However, if you do not want your positions challenged or criticized or even researched, make up a new "phobia"-shout it long enough and some "people", agenda driven, will use it. Ay, yes, the false term does keep many, many financially rewarded-follow the money.gs don morris, Ph.D.

Khader Adnan: Leader of Islamic jihad or innocent baker?

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.More...

Omar Barghouti's Propaganda at USC on January 12, 2012

Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’ -- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.Clare M. Lopez

Americans are opening their eyes

Advertisers fleeing All-American Muslim 'propaganda'The American people are seeing through the propaganda piece that is TLC's All-American Muslim reality/dawah show, and responsible advertisers are fleeing in droves. The show aims to combat a trumped-up problem, "Islamophobia," by presenting Muslims who are just ordinary folk, and

Why Islam is Incompatible with Western Law

Col. Allen West answers a question on muslim terror

Challah's Gaza Rocket Counter

This Month:4Last Month:191

This Year: 562

Total since 2002: 12055

Cease fire Hamas style!!

Thanks http://challahhuakbar.blogspot.com/

"Islamophobia"

"Islamophobia" was a politically manipulative coinage designed to silence critics of Islamic supremacism.It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia.

10 Unknown West Bank Facts

Liberals Redefine "Extremism" and the "Political Center"

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist.The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Don’t ever call it ‘West Bank’ again

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Who do the territories belong to?

The legal borders of Israel under international law

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror YeminiIn 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state. Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

How Liberals Argue

Hebrew Univ-you rock!!

Judea and Samaria are not "occupied" lands-why?

Judea-Samaria were not only parts of the ancient Jewish homeland but were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home recognized by San Remo and the League of Nations [1920, 1922] and by the UN charter [article 80; 1945].

"Political Correctness."

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."Texas A&M

Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul on the climate issues

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

WHAT Golda Meir actually said...

"When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist." Golda Meir June 15, 1969: Interview in the UK Sunday Times

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member